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The CBS blackout on Time Warner Cable systems in several markets has the cable operator trying to placate its customers by offering free indoor antennas and $20 in credit to buy an antenna at Best Buy stores.

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Consumers who are unhappy with high cable TV costs are increasingly cutting the cord, analysts say. This article tells the story of one Los Angeles-area viewer who canceled his Time Warner Cable TV service in light of the CBS blackout and is using an HD antenna, a smart TV and an Amazon Prime subscription to help replace the lost content.

Time Warner Cable is offering a "limited quantity" of free indoor antennas to viewers in markets where CBS and Journal Broadcast stations are blacked out because of retrans disputes. The pay-TV provider has also partnered with Best Buy for a $20 discount to subscribers in the market for antennas.

Verizon FiOS is reaching out to CBS employees with discounts and promotions in response to the network's dispute with Time Warner Cable that's affecting Dallas, Los Angeles and New York. The blackout and dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable is now in its third week.

Time Warner Cable has distributed more than 21,000 TV antennas to its customers in Corpus Christi, Texas, to help them tune in to NBC affiliate KRIS-TV and three additional outlets that are currently dark because of a retransmission consent standoff with Cordillera Communications. Time Warner Cable also has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over news stories and ads about the dispute that have appeared on the local CBS affiliate, which Cordillera runs under a shared-services agreement with SagamoreHill. Cordillera denies it has engaged in any "anticompetitive or inappropriate" practices.